Beam Monte Carlo official figures from the January 2000 meeting. These 3 figures were agreed upon in the collaboration as acceptable for official plots. Figure 1: Nuclear model effects on final answers. The version shown in the collaboration meeting had as its X-axis the 'extrapolation ratio' for a specific set of inputs (water target, 2 m integration region). This version plots the exact same thing, but relative to the value actually used in a full analysis. That is: X value now = 100% * ( (X value previous/ X central value) - 1. ) It shows explicitly how we arrive at the +5-6% error term for nuclear model dependence; just look at the range this covers. Ask JH for related figures about how the models were derived. Those are not official figures, but useful for collaborators to understand if they want to present this official one. Figure 2: Compilation of known systematic errors. (Unchanged since meeting) This list of errors was the main topic of the whole talk at the meeting. It is given as an estimate of the error on final expectation at SK for an analysis that is based on Monte Carlo for extrapolation. This is separate from error on any analysis that relies on the pion monitor for extrapolation, although the final numbers happen to be about the same. Figure 3: Comparison of various models to pion monitor data. In this figure (which is a slight update from that shown at the meeting) a Chi^2 is calculated for the shape of the pion spectrum from each of 64 'alternate nuclear models' compared to the fitted pion spectrum made by Maruyama_san from pion monitor measurements. The updates since the meeting version are: - Only the spectrum (no angular information) is used. The removes effects of any systematics of angular determination in the fit. - The word "Fitting" is changed to "Comparing" because this is more accurate. Each MC spectrum of pions is fit for a normalization, but the resulting reduced Chi^2 values are not used in any minimization, so it's not really a fit. - The values for GCalor(GFluka) and our standard MC model are explicitly put on the figure. * NOTE: We should not use the word "disfavored" about GFluka based on this. (This was the result of some long discussion at the meeting.)